Former NBA player Baron Davis spoke HOT 97 on Tuesday and opened up about just how bad the environment was around former Clippers owner Donald Sterling.

If you're unaware, Sterling has a lifetime ban from the NBA after recordings of him using racist language were leaked. Davis signed a five-year, $65 million deal to play for his hometown Clippers before the the 2008 season. He was on the team until 2011.

During his time with the Clippers, he had several encounters and run-ins with Sterling. When the subject was brought up (before the interviewer even got his question out) Davis said, "Do I still hate him? Of course."

"He would call me a bastard, him and his wife, they'd be like 'you bastard', 'demon child,' " Davis said. "They would have dinner with people who knew me and they would just call me heathen, bastard."

He said Sterling would make comments about him on the sideline during the game.

"It took everything in my power not to take the ball and throw it at him," Davis said.

Davis added he didn't feel he could truly open up about Sterling's antics because he felt he was "in a situation where all forces are against me." He also revealed Sterling was harsh toward the Clippers' staff.

"Some days I'd walk in the building, and some of the employees were crying," Davis said. "So, as mad as I was, like, they were getting it way worse."

The interviewer asked Davis if he had the sense Sterling was a racist. The current free agent didn't hesitate.

"For sure. You could feel it," he said. "I'd be at the layup line and we're getting ready to rock. And as soon as he came into the arena, I would get the worst anxiety. My hands would shake and I felt like I was failing in the sense of so many things, as a black man, you know what I mean? It was just like, how do I…I'm stuck. If I spaz out then how are people gonna look at me?"

Davis continued by saying Sterling's mean-spirited comments went past racism when he was asked if the punishment fit the crime.

"Enough was enough. It was just like, if you didn't feel he was racist, you felt that he was a scumbag," he said. "It wasn't like he was just racist, he thought everybody was a piece of s-.

"You can't continue to treat people like that and think you're going to get away with it."